Morning journal and courier., 1887-09-10
The Roman Metropolis Near seville


 Ghe Roman Metropolis Near seville.
 From the St. James, G G4zettel
 MT. George Bonsor, writing from Mont Joye GhistelIes, Belgium, gives some de- tails about the discovery of a Roman ne crspolis at Carmona, near Seville. About six years ago, he says, he and a Spanish gentleman, Don Juan Fernandez, purchased two plots of land known as the Quarries and the Olive Groves, situated at a short distance west of Carmoua, and commenced our excavations. Upon this site were some curious shaped mounds which we afterwards found to be tumuli of a prehistoric age. Round these mounds the Romans had for centuries hewn small chambers out of the rock to serve family tombs. These are from four to five yards square, and the height of mali, In the walls are small cavities or inches for the cinerary urns, each of which last generally contains, besides the ashes of the dead, coin, mirror, u lachry ymarS, needles, stylus and tabula, and sgnet-ring. The walls are mostly
 painted in fresco or distemper in the Pom peiian style with representations of birds, dolphins and wreaths of flowers. Near the entrance of each tomb is crematoriun, a curious oven, also hewn out of the rock, On tEe sides of all of which signs of fire are still visible. Up to the present time about 320 tombs have been discovered. They are disposed in groups, some round the tumili, some near the Roman quarries, and on both sides of the Roman roads, two of which ran from Carmona to Seville through the necrep- oPolis. MT. Bonsor goes on to say that the most important discoveries have been made near the Roman roads-namely, colum- barium end three large triclinia for the fun eral banquets, with th@ peculiarity that in each a deep channel is cut All round the mensa into which the guests threw the libations. The largest funeral trinclinium discovered contains three tables, with their couches round the one for winter being in hall, another in the sun, and the third for the summer, being in the shade. In ad- dition to these there is an altar, tomb, with it's cinerary urns, kitchen, bath, well, and sanctuary, in which is stone statue. Last year, about fifty yards from this triclin- r ium, Roman amphitheatre, also hewn out of the rock, was discovered.
 Enc x req and Population of Europe. From the London Times.l
 General Strelbitski, who was selected ty the International Statistical Congress, held at the Hague, to prepare report upon the area and number of inhabitants in the differ ent countries Of Europe, has completed his labors, the 2ist of them being that the total area of Europe is (, ,233, ,060 square miles, of which 3,423, 1855 square miles belong to Russia, 391 900 to Austia- Hungary, 338, 900
 to Germany, 333, ,435 to France, 3la,810 to Spain, 281, ,615 to Sweden, 203, 1875 to Nor way, 196, ,615 to Great Britain and Ireland 180, BIO to Italy, 163, $50 to Turkey in Flu rope and Bosnia, SS,S10 to Denmark, s2, 125 to Rouman1a, 55, ,690 to Portugal, 4O,435 to Greece, 30, 375 to Servia, %, ,S75 to Switzer- land, 0,625 to Holland, and 1s,430 to Bel gium. The Russian Empire in Europe alone covers more than half of the whole continent, embracing the kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Finland, and part of the Caucasus Russia also stands far in advance of all the other nations in respect to her pop ulation, which is given by Gen. Strelbitski at 93,000,000, the countries which come next being the German Empire (47.e00, ,0O0), Austria Hungary (39, 900, ,000), France (3S,- 300, ,000l, Great Britain and Ireland (37,- 20O,0O0), Italy (3O, ,eOW, Spain q6,900, 000), Switzerland (7,900,000), Belgium o. s5e, ,O00), Roumania (5,400,000 Turkey in Europe (4,900,00o), Sweden 4,700,O00), Holland and Portugal (4,400,000 each), Denmark C2,190,00O), Servia 2,0o0, ,000), and Norway Q,960,0O0). The density of the population is very different, for while Belgium has 201 inhabitants to the square kilometre (5s of mile), Holland 133, Great Britain and Ireland 119, Italy 105, the German Empire S6, Switzerland T, and Austria Hungary 59, Spain has only S5, Turkey 27, Russia F, Denmark 15, and Nor way 6. But the population of Russia is in- creasing at the rate of 1 ,250, 900 year, and in half century it will, at this rate, exceed 16O 00O O0O